263 Hamilton Avenue
New Brighton | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1909
Art-supplies salesman Benjamin Flowerdew buys the corner lot and builds a house with a corner tower
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Benjamin Flowerdew, who sold art supplies, bought this forty-foot lot at Hamilton and Westervelt Avenues from the Hulse family in 1909. The sale restricted how tall, how far back and for what use he could build, and set a floor on what the house had to cost. His Colonial Revival frame house, by an unknown architect, has a polygonal tower at the southeast corner and a full-width porch. The Flowerdews were living in it by 1910 and stayed until at least 1915.
- 1925
Scottish-born Jessie Brown lives at 263 Hamilton Avenue with her two grown sons
Mrs. Jessie Brown, who was born in Scotland, lived here in 1925 with her adult sons David and Andrew. A one-story addition was put on the back between 1926 and 1937, and the Hamilton Avenue front was later covered in replacement siding above a clapboard first story.
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